My Steemit Journey .. So Far
I've joined steemit back towards the end of August 2017.
I was just getting to learn about bitcoin, blockchain, and similar concepts, where I stumbled upon coinmarketcap and found steem.
When I read about the concept behind steem and steemit, something ticked in my mind .. this is a WINNER concept! and so my journey began..
Promoting steemit
I live in Lebanon - Middle East, so to my understanding, I was the first to board on this platform (I did search a lot to find anyone to connect with from my country, but couldn't find any back then)
And I can be a bit too enthusiastic in promoting a concept that I believe in, and so was the case with steemit. As of my first post, I started talking to my friends about the idea, skeptics exist, but more on that later.. I wanted everyone to benefit from steemit, and grow with the platform, but also help steem's price rise.. a WIN-WIN situation.
@arabsteem project
So unable to find any Lebanese on steemit, I thought of tackling the arab community here. Yet also steemit Arab community was also very shy, with so little contributions that could be found.
So I decided to kick off @arabsteem project!
@arabsteem's key mission is to help bring in, coach, assist and grow the Arab community on steemit.
Some of the key milestones and accomplishments done so far:
- Created the arabsteem account, and delegated 500 SP to it to give it some voting power to be able to help vote quality content.
- Created a discord channel that as of now has 135 members, and is active in connecting Arabs and teaching them on best practices to write quality content.
- Created arabsteem curation trail on steemauto, and joined in on this curation trail. The purpose is to upvote Arab created quality content, whether in Arabic, French, or English languages.
- Started voting Arab content with a focus on quality, better quality posts receive better votes. I was lucky enough to have had a successful journey so far on steemit that I have over 3,000 SP at the moment, so my vote gives a somewhat good value to post at slightly above 1 $ (and arabsteem's vote now at 0.25 cents)
- Started a daily curation digest, whereby a daily digest of the best Arab created content gets compiled and shared with the steemit commuity on a daily basis, this consumes at least an hour or two daily. This would be similar to the effort needed as part of steem ambassador requirements, daily curating quality promo-steem content.
- I also have 2 awesome people who started helping me out as well on managing our discord, providing ideas and promoting @arabsteem, namely @khaled-dz and @mokh-tar. Thank you guys for all the help so far.
Facebook Page and Promotion
I also thought about the aspect of bringing people across the Arab countries to steemit. So for this purpose, I created our Arabsteem facebook page whereby we are trying to raise interest in the Arab countries in steemit. As of now, the page has around 65 likes and we are posting almost daily. Recently I had @alfamano thankfully join in to help and write/share content to the facebook page.
Facebook Ads
I decided to take this a bit further in promoting steemit to the Arab World, and created a paid promotion on facebook to bring in more people to steemit.
The promotion as of 2 days ago, after running for 14 days, had reached 41,501 Impressions, with 390 actions out of which 354 are clicks directing towards steemit.com
I was happily surprised with the results, and decided to extend this promotion further to get more people to join
You can check out my most recent update on this effort here Promoting Steemit to the Arab World - Facebook Ads Updates - Jan 15 2018
Steemit Development Work
Being a developer, I also thought about using my skills to help further expand the potential of using and promoting steemit, particularly on wordpress sites, the most used CMS globally.
So I created GK Steemit Info, a wordpress plugin that allows adding steemit related info such as number of current steemit users, or posts made by a specific users to be displayed publicly on the wordpress site.
The plugin is available on github here with plans for further improvements, expansion, and also making it available on of the official wordpress.org plugins site.
For more info on this, you can check out my posts here:
Wordpress Plugin: GK Steemit Info
Making Steemit Posts Pluggable to Wordpress Sites - GK Steemit Info Update
Final notes
I'm glad so far of the accomplishments I have made, I have had so many new steemians join from Lebanon (I'm not the only one anymore lol), but also from across so many different Arab countries.
The Arab community is starting to grow and show more effort on steemit. Our SP is still low, we are always more than happy to get some SP delegation that could help us grow the effort further.
I can happily say I am proud and humbled by our contributions to the platform and to helping people succeed here, while I look further for future work and assisting both steemians and steem grow, and I believe by taking part in the Steem Ambassador, this would help accomplish our goals.
Thank you!
Really great accomplishment
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Thanks bro
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Wow, @mcfarhat, you’re a doer! As a compatriot, you make me proud, brother. Onwards, upwards!
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Thank you Yahia ! :)
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I will be so happy to see you such position and you deserves for all you have done. It is first time I am hearing about this. if it is country based, why not I apply too ? Best of luck my friend.
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You definitely can! and I don't believe it's country based
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Congratulations on your success!
What a great way to bring more people to the platform. I just saw the arabsteem page the other day and was happy to see people doing such a wonderful job!
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Thank you for your supportive words !
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Damn...if all that accomplishing doesnt mean you are ambassador.....i dont know what does. bad ass @mcfarhat keep on chugging!!
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Thank you
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Hello, Thanks for such a great application and all the fantastic work you have been doing to increase awareness about the steem blockchain and its potential applications!
We at #promo-steem and @steem-ambassador have reviewed your application to become a Steem Ambassador and we are pleased to say that we would like to propose your candidacy to the community per the Application Approval Process HERE!!! :)
In order to proceed we would like to know that you are happy to follow the Steem Ambassador Responsibilities and Guidelines outlined HERE.
Please respond below with your positive response and we will proceed to propose you to the Steemit community as a Steem Ambassador!!
STEEMON!
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Thank you for the nice words.
I am definitely happy and honored to be part of this wonderful initiative!
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so far so good you deserved to an ambasador. continue telling people about steemit i believe in the long run they won't regret
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Keep it up! I have been doing pretty much the same with the Israeli community, and one of the things I found very useful is an account dedicated to tutorials and guides. We have @hebrewguides and I recommend you create @arabguides or something to have a place to send the newbies.
Our discord is not as active, but our Facebook group is 200 strong.
Let's put the middle east on the steemit map! <3
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This is so good wish someone like you would do South Africa as well, not arab but lots living here.
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Steemit Bank invested in your post.
Follow Steemit Bank
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This is just great! We have @hebrewguides for new Hebrew speaking Steemit users. You should make the same just in Arabic! would be amazing.
it will be much easier for you to promote Steemit
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Congratulations on your accomplishments! You are doing a lot! Wish you best luck with all of your endeavors!
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I m suppurt
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